MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday it was
"outrageous" that a Ukrainian man who served in one of Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS units during World War Two had been presented to Canada's parliament last week as a hero.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the episode showed a careless disregard for historical truth, and that the memory of Nazi crimes must be preserved. Canadian parliament speaker Anthony Rota introduced Hunka as"a Ukrainian Canadian war veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians" and"a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero."
Hunka served in World War Two as a member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, according to the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group that demanded and received an apology from Rota.
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